Galli Zurich

[bogdan]

Can anyone help me find more about my watch? It's a REPETITION A QUARTS made by GALLI HORLOGER ZURICH. I don't know anything about them and I'm keen to find out as much as possible about this watch and its manufacturer.
Thank you!

[Hartmut Richter]

Some pictures would help a lot!

I presume that the watch is a pocket watch. It is obviously a quarter repeater, which (in case you didn't know it already) is a quite valuable complication, enabling the watch to tell the time by sound down to the nearest quarter of an hour. Having said that, although minute repeater wrist watches are phenomenally expensive - Patek Philippe minute repeaters START at around two hundred thousand US$!! - quarter repeaters are not as valuable and pocket watch quarter repeaters are even less valuable (it is not as difficult to incorporate such a complication in a larger PW movement) - I once saw a relatively no-name quarter repeater with chronograph PW go for around 10000 German Marks.

As for the company, I have never heard the name, which reduces the value a little further. It is almost certain that the movement wasn't made by them and it is possible that the watch wasn't even made by them either, especially since Zürich isn't exactly at the heart of watchmaking country. Some more or less notable jewellers have watches made for them with their name on the dial, the most famous probably being Tiffany's. So, all in all, you probably don't have a wallet-buster but still a nice, refined timepiece, worth more than the average "standard pocket watch with small seconds hand", especially if it is still working.

Hartmut Richter

[Ray MacDonald]

Galli is the name of a Zurich jeweler so I think Hartmut is correct - it's probably a private label manufacturer with Galli on the dial (similar to Bucherer or Tiffany).
If you can post a picture of the dial and movement that would be the best way to guess at its age and origin.

[bogdan]

Thank you Hartmut and Ray for your promptitude! I'll insert a picture as soon as possible!

[bogdan]

As I promised, here are some pictures of the Galli pocket watch. Please tell me what you think of it.

Thank you again,
Bogdan Olari